They began with a shirt and a white cotton night-cap, and below we came upon a wig and a dressing-gown, but although our hearts might beat never so wildly it was in vain that we looked for money.
He came shuffling along the path from some remote part of the vicarage garden, in a pair of old down-trodden carpet slippers, wearing over an old-fashioned wig a beaver grotesquely battered and green with age.
A wig pushed to the back of his head displayed a brick-colored cranium of ominous conformation.
Fontaine's toad, Astaroth, seemed to her to be less deadly than this poison-sac that wore a sandywig and spoke in tones like the creaking of a hinge.
His keen glances pricked La Cibot like stilettos; he chuckled inwardly, till his shrunken wig was shaking with laughter.
Mr. Lorry, with his flaxen wig and constant smile, came to tea every Sunday with them and helped to keep Doctor Manette cheerful.
Dursey Island in the bay has the ruins of a Castle.
It has the ruins of a splendid Cathedral, with curious monuments and gravestones, and a sculptured figure of St. Brandon.
Emery is also found in the same vicinity, and the chalybeates announce the existence of iron.
The modern picture of this county, as sketched by Mr. Wakefield, is flattering to Irish pride, and shows what may be done by industry.
When I reached your door I took off my wig and beard and put them in my pocket.
My beautiful wig of silver hair, and a suitable dress to go with it.
In the early morning hours I retired to my bridge, put on my silver wig and old man's dress, sunk my other clothes to the river bottom, and appeared in the light of day as an old man.
Lemaitre then put the wig in his pocket: the audience remained silent.
That wig cost me thirty-five francs: you owe me a louis.
He once made a bet that he could take off his wig on the stage without his audience getting angry.
The justice was heated enough, and had pushed his flaxen wig nearly hind-part before, in the warmth of his argument.
The justice rubbed his face to a shining brilliancy, settled on his morning wig and his dressing-gown, and then turned to the bed.
The curls of his best wig were limp, and all his pomposity appeared to have gone out of him.
But ere Mrs. Hare's meek sigh of disappointment was over, the door re-opened, and the flaxen wig was thrust in again.
I had never worn a wig in the part until that night, and I had forgotten for a mere instant that I wore one then.
I have been in many awkward corners in my time; but my inward forces were never more thoroughly routed than by that episode of the lostwig on the stage of the Globe Theatre.
It was a part of the stage business to dash my wideawake hat to the ground, and--the wig came with it.
So this was her reward for secretly instructing the coiffeur to make the "Princess's" wig first.
A comédienne's wig I can sell you for a bagatelle.
Each had at last explained herself and her brown wig to the other.
To be seen by Madame Dépine carrying in her meagre provisions was humiliation enough; to be juxtaposited with a greywig was unbearable.
And for the first time their lips met, and the brown wig brushed the grey.
It would be more sensible to acquire a wig together, and draw lots for it," said Madame Dépine.
In fact, she looked so young at this supreme moment that the brownwig quite became her.
She saw the slender lawyer with the brown coat worn shiny, the scratch wigtied with its black wisp of silk, and the black bag in his hand.
Hence it was that, at the first sight of the slim man with the powdered wig tied in a gay favour behind his back, Louis had run and flung himself into his arms.
And you would make us vassals, Good Mr. Wig and Wings, To silver clocks and tassels; You would, you Thing of Things!
The story was indeed laughable enough, and many a barrister's wig nodded over it at the Coffee House that day.
